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Tuesday, 4 September 2012

2K reps along the canal back from the Paralympics

16M double; recovery run & 2K rep session
6M am recvovery run at 6.30-7.00min/M
10M pm incl 6x2K hard off 2min recovery (and 5 min easy in the middle)

I went to the Paralympics today with my family. There was no Mo, but it was still a great atmosphere and pretty moving in parts. But then I'm just a sporting soft-touch and anything gets me welling up.

I ran my recovery run around and through the Heath again in the morning. Really good conditions again. I ran my second run, sweating like a pig, back along the canal from the Olympic Park. The canal is pretty good for long reps and tempo running I think. But I wouldn't want to do shorter reps careering under the bridges with cycles coming the other way.

The reps today were 2K and off 2 minutes recovery. I ran them in two blocks of three with five minutes of easy running between the blocks (which worked well as it was the segment between Upper Street and the re-emergence of the Regent's Canal heading West). My legs are in a nicely painful state and my lungs a little bit raw in a way that tells me it was a good session.

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